An early printed photograph of the control platform of the engine room aboard the P & O Liner HIMALAYA. Following WWII, P & O began rebuilding their passenger fleet with the S S HIMALAY at Vickers Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness. The 28,047 gross ton liner was at the time the largest passenger liner in the world. The vessel had an innovative Weir system evaporating plant for distilling fresh drinking water from sea water. Her Yard Number was 951 and she was launched by Lady Curry, wife of the P&O Chairman, on 5th October 1948.

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